Grandmother, Her Husband Charged After 11-Year-Old Boy Dies From ‘Horrific’ Abuse
Murder
Young Chaskah Davis Smith was found unresponsive in the bathtub. His 9-year-old half-brother was also found with serious injuries.
Court
January 28, 2022
No Jail Time for Parents of Three Children Who Drowned After Family Drove into Flooded Creek, Despite Warnings
An Arizona couple has been sentenced to probation after their guilty pleas in a case involving the deaths of three children, who drowned when the family drove into a flooded wash. Lacey Rawlings, 34, was formally sentenced to four years probation on Thursday, while her husband, 38-year-old Daniel Rawlings, was sentenced to five years of …
Murder
January 23, 2022
Mom’s Boyfriend Out on Bail After Allegedly Killing Baby
An Arizona man was indicted this week for murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son earlier this month and promptly released on bond. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said its deputies were dispatched to a Fort Mohave home on January 7 and arrived to find Nikko Demitri McLachlan — the mother’s boyfriend — …
Murder
January 21, 2022
Boyfriend Stabs Phoenix Mom to Death, Dumps Her Body in the Desert
Investigators in Arizona say they’ve found the body of a Phoenix mom last seen on Saturday night with her boyfriend. Arrest documents for Jorge Lara, 28, say that family members of 37-year-old Irene Luevano told police she called them Sunday morning and asked them to call police because Lara had stabbed her in the neck, …
Missing
January 2, 2022
Phoenix Man Missing Since Friday, Car Found Burnt Out
An Arizona man was reported missing over the weekend after friends found his car abandoned at a hotel. Daniel Stahoviak told KPNX he was supposed to meet 41-year-old Benjamin Anderson for breakfast Friday morning, but Anderson called to cancel at about 8 a.m. Later, Stahoviak said, he and friend went to Anderson’s apartment, where they …
child neglect
January 2, 2022
Parents Leave 11-Year-Old Boy HOME ALONE for at Least 2 Weeks
An Arizona couple was arrested last week after they allegedly left their 11-year-old son home alone for at least two weeks. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office said it received a request for a welfare check at a home in Elfrida on December 12 by a caller who said a family lived at the residence, but …
Homicide
November 21, 2021
Arizona Mom Wakes Up From Nap To Find Toddler in Backyard Pool
An Arizona mother has been arrested on negligent homicide charges after her toddler daughter was found dead in a backyard pool. Sarah Coleman, 29, reportedly called a family member to say she’d found her 2-year-old daughter in the pool and had performed life-saving measures. The family member alerted Rural Metro Fire Department in Pima County …
Child sex crimes
November 20, 2021
Arizona Kickboxing Instructor Lures Girls to His Home to Molest Them: Cops
An Arizona man has been arrested in California where he fled in September after cutting off his ankle monitor in an attempt to avoid multiple charges of sex abuse against a minor. Gordon Golding, 56, was accused of using his position as a kickboxing instructor to lure girls to his home, where he would molest …
Family Crime
October 11, 2021
‘Cult Mom’ Lori Vallow and Brother Planned Her 3rd Husband’s Murder, Friends and Family Tell Detectives
Brother Alex Cox, who later shot to death his sister’s fourth husband, went to jail for assaulting Joe Ryan with a Taser in 2007.
Murder
October 2, 2021
Murder Suspect Says God Told Him Victims Needed To Be Sacrificed
Jason Thornburg has been charged with the deaths of three people found dismembered and burned in a dumpster — and he reportedly admitted killing his roommate earlier this year and a girlfriend who disappeared four years ago.
Coronavirus
September 3, 2021
Angry Dad Threatens School Principal With ‘Citizen’s Arrest’ Over Order for Son To Quarantine Because of COVID Contact
An angry father and two of his friends stormed into an Arizona elementary school on Thursday and threatened a citizen’s arrest of the principal unless she allowed his son, who had been exposed to COVID 19, to attend classes. Rishi Rambaran and the two men, who do not have children in the school district, live-streamed …
Road Rage
August 19, 2021
5-Year-Old Twins SHOT by Arizona Road Rager: Reports
Twin 5-year-old girls were shot this week in Tucson, Arizona, during a road rage incident. One of the girls was hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and the other was treated at the scene. Tucson police said that the suspect nearly collided with a vehicle driven by the twins’ father Tuesday afternoon, KVOA reported, and …